Update: DEAD! Don’t miss it if this becomes alive again. Sign up for deal notification alerts here!
- Bookable on Priceline. Tickets purchased from Priceline today are refundable until tomorrow at 11:29pm ET. Please see this post for directions on how to cancel these tickets.
- Also bookable on Orbitz or Expedia or direct from the airline.
- Limited seats are available on each date.
- Always search one-way for 1 seat and then work the search up to the number of seats you need in order to book as many seats on sale as you can.
- You can buy extra seats if you want to guarantee empty seats next to you by making the first name of the ticket EXTRASEAT with your last name. You’ll even get double your baggage allowance!
- If you pay with your Chase United Explorer card or Chase United Business Card you can bring a free carry-on, a free checked bag, and have priority boarding even on basic economy. With the Chase United Quest or United Club Infinite Card you’ll get 2 free checked bags.
- Use a card like Sapphire Preferred, Ink Preferred, or Sapphire Reserve to earn 2-3 Chase points per dollar spent and get free trip cancellation/interruption insurance, travel accident insurance, luggage insurance, trip and luggage delay protection, and more!
United has incredible basic economy and standard economy fares nonstop between Newark and Anchorage for summer 2022 travel.
Basic economy fares are just $93-$107 and standard economy fares are just $128-$142 each way. That’s a fraction of the normal $300-$400 each way economy fare for the ~7 hour nonstop flights!
Basic economy fares are not changeable and don’t include seat selection for free. They also don’t include carry-on or checked baggage unless you have a United credit card.
Standard economy tickets have free changes and include seat selection and a free carry-on.
Read more in the Alaska Master Thread on DDF.
Newark to Anchorage $107 dates:
June: 3 through 29
July: Entire month
August: Entire month
September: 1 through 6
Anchorage to Newark $93-$106 dates:
June: 3 through 30
July: Entire month
August: Entire month
September: 1 through 6
Need inspiration? Here are trip reports from Something Fishy (2021), PBaruch (2018), another Something Fishy report (2013), and more.
Using Chase Points:
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel. If you have a Chase Sapphire Preferred or Chase Ink Preferred you can redeem points for 1.25 cents each towards travel.
You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here. The cost will start at just 6,233 points with a Sapphire Reserve. That rate include all taxes and you will still earn flight miles as well!
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Thank you!
Booked std economy with United miles for 11.5k each way, with free cancellation up to 31 days before.
Too bad no business class tickets…
Booked the family before it died, thanks!
Looks dead
Dead
Wasn’t going through so called up representative to ask them how to book it. She said that she needs to speak to a superior to put it through.
Good! Tell her you wanted to book a large group of a few dozen tickets, which in turn you’ll try to resell on the black market…
Anything to and from Chicago?